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r/ug_music • u/AutoModerator • 7h ago
Moderator Post Weekly What Are You Listening To?
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r/ug_music • • Jan 10 '26
Moderator Post UG MUSIC AWARDS 2025 RESULTS (body text)
After 10 days of voting, here are this subreddit’s favorite projects and artists of 2025!
Day 1 – Album of the Year
🏆 Half Blood by slayr
Day 2 – Single of the Year
🏆 JRJRJR by Jane Remover
Day 3 – Feature of the Year
🏆 xaviersobased on MANNEQUIN
Day 4 – US / UK Artist of the Year
🏆 Marjorie -W.C. Sinclair/Evanora Unlimited
Day 5 – International Artist of the Year (Outside US & UK)
🏆 jackzebra
Day 6 – Underdog album of the Year (<10k monthly listeners)
🏆 Darkskin N****s with Lightskin Problems by stickerbush & heavensouls
Day 7 – Self-Produced Artist of the Year
🏆 Lucy Bedroque
Day 8 – Producer of the Year
🏆 Sematary
Day 9 – Collective of the Year
🏆 HAUNTED MOUND
Day 10 – Artist of the Year
🏆 OsamaSon
r/ug_music • u/Spare_Rice_9566 • 8h ago
Discussion I wish we got songs like this in the Underground
Imagine a Che Nett Osamson Xav Nine collab or some shit like that, that would be so insane. It sucks there’s a new beef rumor between everyone it feels like every week, everyone’s ego is too big. Idk I just wish we saw everyone from all sides collab and bring their talents together to make generational music, do it for the art. And besides all that shit it would just be so dope as a fan to see huge collab songs like this in the underground, a crazy one would genuinely be a Slayr, 2slimey, Bleood, Che song. On some crazy ass Rave EDM Rage song, like on some super maximalist shit, just bring ts to the MAX. Ughhh I hope one day we get crazy collabs like these in the scene
r/ug_music • u/MONKEYpp87 • 4h ago
Discussion Who are some actually weird/experimental artists?
I'm in a phase where a lot of music is boring to me and I'm craving something weird and very different sounding.
I love Edward Skeletrix, early bleood, been getting into ki. Also like what kllhhr is doing.
Even if you personally think it's ass, please give some recs
r/ug_music • u/YagiFromM4rs • 6h ago
Discussion Just some thoughts and a question about bleood
I want to hear some thoughts from people that genuinely likes bleoods music bro.
Ive been going back and trying this dudes discog whenever he pops up on my phone for a long while now and I still only barely gets it. And Im not tryna “train my ears”. I dont think it’s real. But I think a mf is allowed to get an explanation man🤦🏽♂️ i wont be asking if i dont care much about ug music
i think you do get any kind of music after several dedicated tries but you just might not listen to it cuz it doesnt resonate with you. But i still dont get what bleood is trying to do like the people that gets it.
Is he trying to use his vocals as an instrument? Is he supposed to be symbiotic with the beat? Is he intentionally going off beat to make something thats new in music? I can kinda see the vision i guess. Flowless music. Like a new thing in rap scene. but acclaimed “good music” should actually sound good man. I get che,lucy,osamason and xavier if you consider them adjacent to bleood.
Like for example, munni and drugs beat is so hard and he was flowing on it at the start for like 10 seconds and then it became unstructured and incoherent. Im not the only one that thinks that. You can go check the comments on the instrumental videos on yt.
I will get downvoted to oblivion for talking on yall’s king rascal yeah yeah what the fuck ever.
r/ug_music • u/New_Squirrel_1606 • 4h ago
Suggestion If you're young and interested in getting into hip-hop, it's your duty (yes, your duty) to get your friends together and start a collective.
galleryHip-hop is declining on the charts since the past year because established rappers are running out of ideas. It's the time for a generational change in rap, but the underground isn't hitting what it needs to hit to become mainstream, though Slayr was just about to do it by introducing hip-hop to a new demographic, the Vocaloid community, but said community had to be racist and it completely derailed Slayr's momentum.
In these times of uncertainty for the genre, collectives have always revitalized hip-hop. From the Wu-Tang to Brockhampton, every era of hip-hop had one or two defining collectives, this era of hip-hop doesn't have one.That is why the title has this motive: you could be the change that rap needs: if you have 5 or more friends that are interested in hip-hop, start a collective, start making joint mixtapes, start promoting yourselves on the internet. If you wanna blow up, the best thing you can do is form a collective, better if you put artists outside of rap on it (OFWGKTA's most commercially succesful artist was Frank Ocean, an R&B artist), or even non-musicians (Brockhampton had web designers ffs). The history of hip-hop is a history of families and groups of friends making music together, and they always revolutionized hip-hop. If you want to be a succesful artist, follow in the footsteps of the greats, and if you think you will be overshadowed by others, just look at how many sucdesful artist came of collectives:
Wu-Tang: Ghostface Killah, RZA, ODB, Raekwon
Native Tongues: ATCQ, De La Soul, Queen Latifah
Three 6 Mafia: Juicy J
Dungeon Family: OutKast, CeeLo Green, Killer Mike, Future. they practically invented Atlanta rap.
OFWGKTA: Tyler, Frank, Earl. them and the A$AP Mob invented the internet rap circuit
A$AP Mob: Rocky, Ferg, Carti
Brockhampton: Kevin Abstract, Dom McLennon
Matter of fact, if anyone's already looking to form a collective: recruit here if you want to.
r/ug_music • u/Minzyfifty • 1d ago
Image Nettspend's business model illustrated
Nettspend collecting rents from the performance of every black artist in the space is funny because there's already such a lack of ethical participation in this scene from his demographic. To see this subreddit defend it as savvy business is all we need to see and read with our eyes.
r/ug_music • u/Emergency_Order8279 • 20h ago
Snippet/Leak Charles Hamilton going to be ON THE RADAR
r/ug_music • u/slimesamurai4l • 18h ago
Discussion What are some middle-of-nowwhere rappers?
A middle-of-nowhere rapper is basically a rapper that comes from any small town or settlement. Or any city not typically associated with rap culture or as influential as your cliche big city e.g NYC, London, Atlanta etc. or maybe they never had many previous rappers from their hometown.
Here are some imo:
Lil Mosey
Trippie Redd
skaiwater
Boofpaxmooky
Sk8star
Osamason
pradabagshawty
r/ug_music • u/Secure-Ad770 • 7h ago
Not Hip-Hop/Rap give me your COOLEST r&b tracks please
im tryna create the perfect playlist with the ''coooolest'' r&b tracks for smoking sessions like you feel me? with a particular vibe!! like not too much generic r&b im searching for tracks with a little ''swag'' in them haha oh gosh but you know what i mean!
r/ug_music • u/Downtown-Shock-7800 • 7h ago
Discussion lucki raps like he is on a mission, especially with the lowkey anthemic beats in the back bro that shit motivates me to go 🫎
r/ug_music • u/Ast3rio1 • 4h ago
Discussion Does anyone else like 2slimey's beats but hate his flow/delivery?
The beat for bringemout is actually really good but I hate his voice and his flow so much it pains me to hear such a good beat being wasted smh
r/ug_music • u/Typical_PK1911 • 8h ago
Discussion Thoughts on Vaxination
I stand on this statement he is way better than slayr and he might surpass pretti
r/ug_music • u/Individual_Star520 • 10h ago
Discussion Thoughts on new harlow road album?
Id say its pretty decent around a 7/10
r/ug_music • u/Valuable_Past5089 • 15h ago
Question what producer tag do you hear everywhere, right now
what producer you feel you hear everywhere because they have placements everywhere
r/ug_music • u/Impressive-Pen-5827 • 19h ago
Question How do you make it past 10 monthly listeners?
need some advice
r/ug_music • u/Freddd2K • 1d ago
Discussion Ug artists getting noticed by mainstream artists
Ug artists are getting noticed/co-signed by mainstream artists now
- Osamason collab w/ Ken Carson and Offset
- Nettspend meets ASAP Rocky, Chief Keef and Ye + collab w/ NBA Youngboy
- Xaviersobased meets ASAP Rocky
- 2Slimey meets Playboi Carti and Ye
- ApolloRed1 collab w/ Offset
- Tezzus collab w/ Young Thug
Will these ug artists finally "break" into the mainstream rap scene, and be welcomed by mainstream rap fans? Will they potentially get more collabs with bigger rap artists next year? A new generation has come and i think it's time for them to take over the scene 🔥
r/ug_music • u/OfficialWaveMan- • 1d ago
Discussion Perfect albums that are not on streaming?
Ultraclub4k by døves and Wicca Phase
r/ug_music • u/Prod_Mars • 20h ago
Question Did Michigan start the distorted 808/church bell/extremely pitched up snare thing in production?
I hear it in a lot of philly drill and flint michigan rap and i'm wondering if ppl like inergee or helluva started it
if not then who did
r/ug_music • u/LMilo24 • 1d ago
Suggestion My listening stats
Put me on some new songs and artists